This scene represents the apotheosis of state surveillance using telephone, electonic and satellite technologies. It is difficult to tell where the real capabilities of Federal government surveillance and Hollywood fantasies begin and end. In this narrative, an abandoned, urban industrial zone offers the only haven from all forms of surveillance - and then only when in the paranoid and technologically sophisticated hands of a former NSA agent. The brave new world of ubiquitous surveillance described by Gene Hackman precedes the justifications of the post 9/11-Patriot Act era.